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I’m considering taking the drastic step of no longer watching the news. Things are just too depressing and, perhaps worse, there’s so much uncertainty about what lies ahead economically that it frees every commentator and columnist to pour as much doom and gloom as they like down the gaping maw of a willing public. After all, we lap this stuff up. But in reality no-one knows how good or bad things are actually going to get. All we know for sure is that we’ve bequeathed a terrifying amount of debt to our children. How the people and the governments...
A long, long time ago I can still remember how … no, wait. Wrong era. A long time ago one Scott Alden asked me why it was that I had become suddenly unwilling to post my material on boardgamegeek any more. It was a fair question and I promised an answer but back then I just couldn’t find the time or, indeed, the right words to answer that question. Since media plurality is a big issue in the UK right now, it’s something that popped back into my head. In the wake of boardgamenews, a...
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My four-year old daughter has always been tremendously curious about my games, so when she was old enough to start playing some of them I was obviously delighted to indulge her. Some of her favourites include Carcassonne, which we play without the Farmers rule, Castle Ravenloft, although I have to draw all the monster and event cards as they’re “too scary” and Pitchcar, a game at which she can quite legitimately beat me most of the time. However I’m sure you’ll be amazed to learn that her absolute top rated game is the 3-4 hour, 24-pages of rules epic...
I was indulging in some serious spring cleaning over the weekend, including sorting through the contents of my “important stuff” box. In there I found, to my surprise, this tube of polyhedral dice. They’re cool dice: nice design, and I particularly like the way it includes two D10’s in different yet complementary colours, one printed with 0-9 and the other with 00-90 so you never need get confused about those D100 rolls ever again. The tube is also sealed: those dice have never been rolled in anger. Finding them I was torn between pleasure at...
Gaming Gluttony
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I've been thinking lately, which is a change from my normal routine of staring at my shoes and falling asleep while I'm driving. It doesn't happen very often, but now and then I find it refreshing to mix it up and use my head for more than a paperweight (which is not that useful anyway, because my drool keeps smearing the ink).And my latest epiphany is that there are too many games. That may sound like heresy, especially when Drake's Flames survives because people send me lots of games, but I swear I'll try to make some sense before...
Pictured is a game that did not make the Barnes' Best: The 1970s cut. I didn't want to scare away the sexophobic board gamers, nor the teetotalers who might see this picture and become "concerned" about that Colt .45 spilling onto the board. But hot damn, is this a '70s picture or what?
Pictured are people trying to play a game before hobby gaming really got rolling sometime in the 1970s. Notice that it doesn't look like much fun and I think a guy died. Eurogamers claim that folks that play Monopoly and Risk still look like this. In the first episode of Barnes' Best, a new Cracked LCD feature series, I'm listing my favorite games released before the Beatles broke up and ended Western civilization.
What, you weren't expecting a freaking EXTRAVAGANZA? Not wearing your tux, you say? That's alright, we're just sitting here in our underwear anyway watching old reruns of EIGHTEEN WHEELS OF JUSTICE.
Alright, cut the chitchat. It's time for the Cracked LCD Game of the Year presentation at Gameshark.com.
![[Music] THE Worst Five Christmas Songs of All Time](http://fortressat.com/images/stories/jreviews/tn/tn_2279_list_sad_santa1.jpg "[Music] THE Worst Five Christmas Songs of All Time")
This time of year, you'll find plenty of radio stations who are on a constant 24-hour Christmas music rotation. Most of them start around midnight Thanksgiving and carry straight through Christmas. The idea is to gorge yourself on a veritable buffet of cheerful holiday sounds, sending you into a glazed but mostly pleasant Christmas mood. Here are the five songs you're likely to hear this season that will not engender the desired holiday spirit...in fact, enough exposure to these, and you might go on a Feliz Navidad-fueled killing spree. ...
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